More than a million people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm Sunday in a rally for unity described as the largest demonstration in French history. Millions more marched around the country and the world to repudiate three days of terror...

The Berlin Wall came down Nov. 9, 1989, heralding not just the reunification of East and West Berlin, and East and West Germany, but the eventual fall of the USSR and the Iron Curtain. The wall had carved an absurd, brutal path through Berlin’s heart and the hearts of so many of its people. Seeming...

On the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, participants around the nation paused to honor the dead and pay tribute to first responders. With the solemn toll of a bell and a moment of silence, the nation paused Thursday to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks...

At Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp near the border with Syria, more than 50,000 refugees under the age of 18 call the wind-swept, massive desert camp home. ZAATARI, Jordan — At Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp near the border with Syria, the horror of the neighboring country’s civil war can be seen...

The USS New York is a floating reminder of 9/11. “It’s like serving in World War II on the USS Pearl Harbor.” Six feet 2 inches of Navy-grade muscle with forged-in-steel self-assurance to match, Command Master Chief Shawn Isbell is unquestionably a front-line kind of guy. But whenever...

At 3:00 Tuesday morning, the entire freshman class at the U.S. Naval Academy, known as Plebes, embarked on a 14-hour day of physical and mental challenges known as Sea Trials. The endurance challenge caps off their first year at the academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and helps prepare them for real-world...

The unidentified remains of those killed on Sept. 11 returned to the World Trade Center site in a solemn procession on a foggy Saturday morning. Like many decisions involving the site of the nation’s worst terrorist attack, the disposition of the unidentified remains has been contentious. The remains...

Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent victims with pride over the city’s resilience in the face of a terror attack. “This day will always be hard,...

Anja Niedringhaus faced down some of the world’s greatest dangers and had one of the world’s most infectious laughs. She photographed dying and death, and embraced humanity and life. She gave herself to the subjects of her lens, and gave her talents to the world, with images of wars’...

Private Jimmy Shirley, 7th Florida Volunteer Infantry, Company B, staggers back, a series of bullets ripping into his chest. He slumps and falls on his face, dead. His wispy gray whiskers tangle in the tall grasses of this Civil War battlefield. But no blood oozes from the fabric of his butternut gray...